The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-02

stone will be ground down level is the best
mode or removing these inequalities. With
a little labor the stone may be mado as good
as new.
If the land in which the orchard is grow
ing be thin pillow up thoroughly and keep
stirred without planting crop. Good rich
soil for three or four years can be profitably
planted to some crop while the orchard is
growing. But after that the best plan is
either to seed down to clover and use as
hog pasture, or to cultivate without allow
ing any crop TO grow.
In England vetches, which grow like our
peas, are commonly used as green manure.
They furnish a considerable amount of vege-
table matter and in growing shade the soil,
which increases its proportion of vegetable
matter. But no crop is so good to pillow
under as red clover, whose long roots pene-
trate the Subsoil, and thus make it fertile to
greater depth as they decay.
1t is idle to think Of growing a good crop
| Of onions unless previous preparations have
been made by thorough cultivation the pre-
ceding year. The crop will never succeed
| on sod, and two years crop of potatoes
where sod had been turned under is better
| than one. Onions require very rich SOIL
| and it is not always easy to secure this
without making it also foul with weeds.
| If you have old trees that have failed to
| yield profitable crops of fruit, dig the soil
up thoroughly and then apply a good dress
| ing of well-rotted stable manure and work
thoroughly into the soil. Then if YOU have
them, apply a dressing of wood ashes If
| these fail TO revive the trees, after giving a
| good pruning,it is about past redemption,
and should give way to something better.
The first planting of anything in spring
should be covered very lightly While the
soil is cold from deep freezing or ice water
! during winter the sun warns it only little
below the surface There is always moisture
enough in early spring to bring seeds up
and once they are terminated the plants viii
| give their roots all the needed covering by
| striking down into the soil when this is bet
| ter for their growth.
One of the arguments in favor of thresh-
| ing corn is that it also shells it at the same
time But it does this very imperfectly, as
the corn is usually damp when husked, and
| it is not possible for even the best shelters to
take off all the grain. But a worse objec-
| ton than this lies in the fact that where
corn is threshed and sheled as well as husked,
| it does not keep as we'll as when it is put in
the crib on the ear There is much damp
ness i'll the grain of new corn and needs the
| circulation Of air which it gets in the crib
when on the cob to dry it out
| There is time in spring on ground entirely
| naked to SOW oats or some other rapidly
| growing vegetable. to be turned under in
May as a green manure. Oats are probably
best for this purpose, and i'll most cases n
| good seeding will coast but little money. At
the height Of eight or ten inches, which they
| will speedily reach in fair soil, they furnish
an amount of plant food evenly distributed
| over the surface that cannot be got in any
other way so cheaply, and the fertility thus
obtained Immediately available. If phosph-
ate or other concentrated manure be drilled
in with the oats it will benefit the succeed
ing crop even more than if saved and APP
| Piled to that directly.
| Onions are always grown on old ground,
and as preparatory crop carrots are the
best -Four or five pounds of seed to the
acre is best, as much of the seed fails to
| grow, from the effect of the smut or some
| cause, which destroys the vitality of the seed
| before it breaks through the soil Plow as
| shallow as possible-not over four inches
deep blowing being the cause of scullions.
| The blight is caused by lice, and will show
during spell of very hot, dry weather To
grow the immense crops reported in this
country, the land must be very rich. 1t
was formerly the custom to grow onions
continuously on the same ground, but now,
due to the smut and maggots, the land
must be changed after few years crop
ping.